Inkwood Poetry Night: Darla Himeles and Lauren Hilger
Schedule
Fri May 09 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
106 Kings Hwy E, Haddonfield, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08033 | Haddonfield, NJ
Join us for another edition of Inkwood Poetry Night! Our featured poets for May are the wonderful Darla Himeles and Lauren Hilger.Light refreshments will be served, all are welcome, and an open mic will follow the featured readers.
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Darla Himeles (they/she) is a Philadelphia-based poet and an assistant teaching professor at Widener University. They are the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough and the full-length poetry collection Cleave, both published by Get Fresh Books. Darla's poems and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and can be read in recent and forthcoming issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Night Heron Barks, and American Poetry Review. They hold an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College, an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University, and a PhD in American literature from Temple University. Find Darla on Instagram @darlahimelespoetry, and read more at darlahimelespoetry.com.
Lauren Hilger received a BA from New York University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016) and Morality Play (Poetry NW Editions, 2022), which was selected for the Possession Sound Poetry Series. Named a Nadya Aisenberg Fellow in poetry from MacDowell, she has also received fellowships from the Hambidge Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Foundation's online archive, NEA's Poetry Out Loud, and elsewhere. She is at work on a third book and serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens. For more information please visit laurenhilger.com.
Where is it happening?
106 Kings Hwy E, Haddonfield, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08033
